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- Background research indicates that severe stroke outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa may be linked to initial stroke severity, but there is limited knowledge on what influences stroke severity specifically in indigenous Africans.
- A study involving 3,660 West African stroke cases found that diet (high meat and low vegetable consumption) and lesion volume significantly correlated with severe stroke conditions, with severe cases comprising over half of all evaluated strokes.
- The findings suggest that addressing dietary habits and understanding lesion characteristics could help mitigate the high rates of severe stroke in this population.
Background Coronary artery disease was hitherto a rarity in Africa. Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) accounts for coronary artery disease-related morbidity and mortality. Reports on ACS in Africa are few.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA Cross-Sectional Comprehensive Assessment of the Profile and Burden of Non-motor Symptoms in Relation to Motor Phenotype in the Nigeria Parkinson Disease Registry Cohort.
Mov Disord Clin Pract
November 2021
Neurology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences College of Medicine, University of Lagos Lagos Nigeria.
Background: Data on non-motor symptoms (NMS) in black Africans with Parkinson's disease (PD) are sparse.
Objective: To describe the profile of NMS in the Nigeria PD Registry (NPDR) cohort and explore the relationship between NMS and PD motor phenotype.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of the frequency and burden of NMS, based on the non-motor symptoms scale (NMSS) and the Chaudhuri method respectively in our cohort.